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Sunday, June 18, 2017

life in late june... (pm.18.jun.17)>

Sunday's stats:Low temp: 63.5F (17.5C)High temp: 74.2F (23.4C)Average humidity: 77%Rainfall: 0.12" (3mm)A line has been crossed the last 48 hours, with these much higher humidity levels. The entire nature and character of our air mass has changed, and I think that is obvious to see. It's been another murky day, with a lot of cloudiness interspersed with a few periods of hazy sunshine, and a period of light showers which was confined to the noon hour. There was a little bit of thunder with that, but at least so far, we've seen nothing close to the kind of rainfall we dealt with yesterday (Sat).By late June, pretty much on schedule this year, the atmosphere across most of central and northern India takes on more tropical characteristics, with a very lazy flow in the upper-atmosphere, and increasingly moist/humid air accumulating in the lower and mid-levels. Although it always takes a while for the India Met Department to move that official monsoon onset line up in our direction, here along the mountains, we often begin to see monsoon conditions well before the official onset declaration. So... we are living on the edge at the moment.Temperatures have underperformed dramatically the last couple of days, due to the very moist atmosphere and very limited sunshine, and will have trouble climbing very much unless we can come up with a more extended period of sun, and at least a temporary reduction in the humidity. As far as rain showers/thunder are concerned... they are in the forecast pretty much for the duration.